Day 2: Who Is Writing Your Story?
- Joni
- 22 hours ago
- 3 min read
SEPTEMBER brings NEWNESS.
School begins.
A NEW grade.A NEW STEP.
From kindergartento first grade...
and the grades never stop.
Because LIFE NEVER STOPS.
It keeps asking usto take another
STEP
in a
NEW DIRECTION.
So...
What NEW STEP are you standing on TODAY?
Is it a life without someone you love?
Is it a NEW job or leaving an OLD one?
Is it a NEW relationship... or an OLD relationship that you desperately want to become NEW?
Is your child leaving home, turning the home you knew into a
NEW EMPTY NEST?
Or is it simply a NEW DAY
and you have absolutely no idea what
NEW STEP to take?
With every NEW STEP there is a ripple effect.
Because when something
NEW is BIRTHED in our lives, there is CHANGE.
There is TRANSITION.
And TRANSITION can produce NEW GROWTH.
But are we open to GROWING?
Are we willing to TRANSITION
from what we know into something NEW?
Or would we rather stay safely inside the cocoon,
because being a caterpillar is what we know.
So why bother learning how to use NEW WINGS?
Hmm.
How do YOU deal with CHANGE?
And maybe an even bigger question is
WHO IS WRITING YOUR STORY?
When life changes, do you SEIZE the moment
with
GREAT EXPECTATION
and
GREAT ANTICIPATION because you KNOW
that even when you don't understand what GOD is doing,
HE IS STILL WORKING?
“And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM...”
(Romans 8:28).
From
OLD to NEW.
How are you living in
THE DASH
between
WHAT WAS
and
WHAT IS
on your way to
what
WILL BE?
LIFE is forever CHANGING.
Like the second hand on a clock...
TICK.TICK.TICK.
No one can stop the hands of
TIME.
So why do we keep trying
by
LOOKING BACK
at
WHAT WAS?
Whether what was oh so GOOD
or oh so BAD...
it was still YESTERDAY.
Kindergarten may have been wonderful,
but eventually, there is seventh grade.
TICK.TICK.TICK.
CHANGE
keeps on
CHANGING.
But
JESUS DOESN'T.
And maybe that is exactly what we need to know
when everything else does.
When I don't know what the next step looks like,
JESUS DOES.
When I don't know where the staircase is leading,
JESUS DOES.
When I cannot see what is around the corner,
JESUS IS ALREADY THERE.
HE can lead me
ONE STEP
at a time
into places I have never been before.
Not because I know what is coming,
but because
I KNOW WHO IS LEADING ME.
Oh...
NEW STEP
NEW GROWTH.
NEW YOU.
No matter what "grade"you are in, because you never outgrow
JESUS.
And thankfully...
HE NEVER CHANGES.
"JESUS CHRIST is the same yesterday and today and forever”
(Hebrews 13:8).
So maybe it's time to leave yesterday
where it belongs~
BEHIND US.
And take the NEXT STEP.
Then the NEXT.
And the NEXT.
STEP BY STEP~
"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, press on toward the goal to win the prize for which GOD has called me heavenward in CHRIST JESUS”
(Philippians 3:13–14).
Because
SEPTEMBER
is
NEW
will you be willing
to walk with JESUS
into something
NEW too?
Because perhaps the question isn't simply:
WHAT WILL MY NEXT CHAPTER BE?
Perhaps it is:
WHO AM I LETTING WRITE IT?
Will I keep gripping
THE CHALK
trying to write the story I think my life should tell?
Or will I place
THE CHALK
into the hands of
JESUS
and trust HIM with
THE NEXT LINE?
Maybe that is how we begin this
NEW SEPTEMBER.
Not knowing every answer.
Not seeing every STEP.
Not understanding every change.
But knowing
THE ONE who does.
Are you READY?
Take the chalk,
and now
HAND IT TO JESUS.
And join us each day as we walk into
SEPTEMBER
and learn to
LIVE NEW
through our
NEW DEVOTIONAL SERIES~
CHALK TALK: STEP BY STEP
REAL LIFE. REAL STORY. REAL GOD.
Because the story is still being written.
And we don't need to know every chapter
when we know
THE AUTHOR.
HAPPY NEW~
"TODAY.TOMORROW.AND FOREVER"
(Listen to the song below.)
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